Intel’s voice recognition will blow Siri out of the water—because it doesn’t use the cloud

Processing voice commands right on the device is one of those trivial but not so trivial innovations. As cloud and Internet of Things journalist Stacey Higginbotham has observed, people won’t want to wait three or more seconds when we command our automated house to “turn on the lights.” For true voice interaction with computers, the kind that involves clarifications and a genuine dialogue, our devices are going to have to respond to our voice just as quickly as a human would—or even faster.